Example sentences of "n't [verb] [pron] could have " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm not putting it around the table , because it 's a very long letter , and I do n't think we could have a worthwhile discussion on it right now . |
| 2 | ‘ I do n't think they could have done any more than they did . |
| 3 | I do n't think anyone could have entered without my hearing . ’ |
| 4 | Craig had been wonderful to Hari during the past days , she did n't think she could have got through it all without him . |
| 5 | ‘ You do n't think she could have come across something that put her in danger ? ’ |
| 6 | She did n't think she could have gone on handling this by herself , not on top of everything else that had happened . |
| 7 | But I do n't think she could have dumped him . |
| 8 | ‘ I do n't think you could have thought of a better way of rewarding her , she seems such an independent little thing . ‘ |
| 9 | ‘ I was very active and do n't think I could have done any more . ’ |
| 10 | I would have written far sooner , only — to be quite frank — I feared a snub , and I do n't think I could have borne it … |
| 11 | ‘ I do n't think I could have done that on my own , ’ Laura confessed . |
| 12 | Well , I 've never even seen a dead body before — imagine , what with the bones , the shroud and the flies ; if I had n't had the camera between me and it , I do n't think I could have looked . |
| 13 | I enjoyed my life with them and I do n't think I could have coped in the beginning without them . |
| 14 | Mr Garner joined TI in 1979 , after a brief but colourful climb up the industrial ladder and having discounted the idea of becoming a professional trumpeter — ‘ I do n't think I could have stood the strain ’ . |
| 15 | ‘ Christ , man , I did n't think any of you guys should have been out there , but I do n't think I could have done what you did , in the Falklands . |
| 16 | I do n't think I could have handled it if I 'd been given a sentence . |
| 17 | But if I 'd had eight months of thinking , I do n't think I could have taken it . |
| 18 | ‘ I do n't think I could have stood any more of that this morning . ’ |
| 19 | I do n't think I could have stood it crying for hours on end . |
| 20 | I , I think er erm when I first started down there , it was a job , I thought well this is a good job fifteen bob a week , that 's , that 's a lot more than some of the other boys who 'd left school got , they were twelve and six you see and erm , I think erm I came back out of the forces and took over more responsible jobs , I do n't think I could have gone to anything else but transport . |
| 21 | But to her amazement he did nothing of the kind , but , shaking his head as if he had been under some kind of stress , ‘ I did n't think I could have got your innocence so completely wrong , ’ he stated gruffly . |
| 22 | I do n't think I could have done that if I had still been drinking or doing the things I was doing about ten years ago . |
| 23 | ‘ I do n't think I could have married anyone who does n't like animals , ’ she admits . |
| 24 | Without the spectators cheering me on I do n't think I could have had such a good race . |
| 25 | I think because I was so inexperienced in the sixties , er I do n't think I could have coped with doing two things . |
| 26 | Well one of the things that I think has been very striking about John Major , and unfortunately again I 'm comparing him with Mrs. Thatcher , but it 's very difficult not to , thank goodness she was n't around during the Gulf war — that 's my feeling — because I do n't think I could have borne the idea of erm any more rejoice and up an atom and things like that . |
| 27 | Sanders is a muddled old chap , but I do n't think he could have been wrong about anything as fundamental as that . |
| 28 | ‘ No , that 's one thing I 've always said , that with his vanity and with his looks , I do n't think he could have grown gracefully into old age . |
| 29 | OK , that 's an isolated episode , but had a feminist film crew gone out to make a documentary about wife battering I do n't think it could have been done more successfully . |
| 30 | ‘ I know what they 're saying , but you do n't think it could have happened , do you ? ’ |